Letters by a modern St. Ferdinand III about cults

Saturday, April 16, 2011

GlobaloneyWarming Apostasy alert. Co2 follows climate [no kidding].

Unscientific fraud.

by StFerdIII

The climate-terrorists better start rebranding the cult. Co2 as the villain in the macabre set-piece of Mother Earth eradication is plainly nonsensical and irrational. Much better criminals exist including my personal favorite 'chemicals' which can cause and be blamed for everything including infant mortality, bad water, and too-large tomatoes and chickens. Climate 'science' is not a science and has never adhered to the scientific method. Blaming 'weather' and temperatures on a natual chemical which follows climate is about as scientific as blaming the same on bad hair-cuts.

Matt Ridley, Apostate

: Even climate science has encountered cause-effect confusion. When in 1999 Antarctic ice cores revealed carbon-dioxide concentrations and temperature marching in lockstep over 400,000 years, many—including me— found this a convincing argument for attributing past climate change to carbon dioxide. (About 95% of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is natural, coming from the exhalations of living things. In the past, carbon-dioxide levels rose as the earth warmed at the end of ice ages and fell as it cooled at the end of interglacial periods.)

Then four years later came clear evidence from finer-grained analysis of ice cores that temperature changes preceded carbon-dioxide changes by at least 800 years. Effects cannot precede their causes by eight centuries, so temperatures must drive carbon dioxide, chiefly by warming the sea and causing carbon dioxide dissolved in water to "out-gas" into the air.

Climate scientists fell back on a "feedback" hypothesis, arguing that an initial change, probably caused by variations in the earth's orbit that affect the warmth of the sun, was then amplified by changes in carbon-dioxide levels. But this made the attribution argument circular and left the reversal of the trend after a period of warming (when amplification should be at its strongest) still harder to explain. If carbon dioxide is still driving the temperature upward but it falls instead, then other factors must be stronger than expected.

Some climate scientists see cause-effect confusion at the heart of climate modeling. Roy Spencer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration argues from satellite data that the conventional view has one thing backward. Changes in cloud cover are often seen as consequences of changes in temperature. But what if the amount of cloud cover changes spontaneously, for reasons still unclear, and then alters the temperature of the world by reflecting or absorbing sunlight? That is to say, the clouds would be more cause than consequence. Not many agree with Mr. Spencer, but it is an intriguing idea.

It is simply fantastical that anyone still believes in GlobaloneyWarming. Only the true-believers and kool-aid drinkers still put their trust in the most irrational and cultish of non-scientific hallucinations. The cult will persist and mutate to something else of course. In the future few will remember the outlandish lies and claims that never came to pass, but which were made with screaming shrillness and certainty by the GlobaloneyWarming circus, as they denuded governments of hundreds of billions of dollars. Long before this current fraud implodes, the cult will be onto another theme, continuing to defraud taxpayers, enhance their power and control, all the while declaiming that surely 'this time' Mother Earth devastation 'will be worse than we had ever imagined'.